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Say Goodbye To Privacy

Posted on June 2, 2025June 3, 2025 by Steve Ainslie

Privacy is over. It’s an outdated concept that no longer applies in modern society. With the proliferation of persistent data tracking from the internet, cell phones, smart home devices, digitally connected cars, web browser cookies, “personalized marketing preferences”, shared databases, insurance companies and hackers, your personal information has been compromised, sold, distributed and published ad…

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Put Two Hands On The Dog

Posted on May 27, 2025May 28, 2025 by Steve Ainslie

A few months ago I read the book, “Love Is All You Need: The Revolutionary Bond-Based Approach to Educating Your Dog”. The author is a service dog trainer with decades of experience. I liked her philosophy and approach to training. Several things she wrote have stuck with me: With the first, she recommends sharing your…

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Reading Is Fundamental

Posted on May 27, 2025May 28, 2025 by Steve Ainslie

Reading books might not make you smart, but I’m convinced that not reading makes you dumber. I am no longer shocked when I hear someone say they haven’t read a book since high school (or ever). Usually that same person has already demonstrated a lack of wisdom, an ignorance of history, a limited vocabulary and…

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Austerity For Thee…But Not For Me

Posted on May 27, 2025May 28, 2025 by Steve Ainslie

“There might be a little bit of pain.” “I’m just saying your daughter doesn’t need to have 30 dolls. She can have three. Your kids don’t need to have 250 pencils. They can have five.”
 “American people will understand … because the American people understand shared sacrifice.” It’s revealing that anytime austerity and shared sacrifice…

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Self-Diagnosed Excuses

Posted on May 8, 2025May 9, 2025 by Steve Ainslie

For someone looking to escape accountability for their own poor behavior, our society today offers a plethora of ready-made pseudo-psychological excuses. Just self-diagnose yourself as a victim based on what you’ve heard on a podcast or TikTok and you can now blame your “disease”/parents/ex/society…anyone but yourself. I don’t think people are much different today than…

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No Endpoint

Posted on May 7, 2025May 7, 2025 by Steve Ainslie

On a recent Solo podcast, the topic was how the Covid pandemic affected solos. Having lived through the pandemic as a solo, I was interested to hear how others experienced the pandemic and societal isolation now that we’ve just passed the 5 year anniversary of lockdowns. Peter McGraw, the host said something that stuck with…

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Government Solutions

Posted on May 6, 2025 by Steve Ainslie

I am skeptical about counting on the government to solve our problems. My experience is that government usually responds too late and too insignificantly – long after I have dealt with (and suffered with) my dilemma for years – or even decades. I was listening to a podcast today when an example of this occurred….

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It’s Either Significant…Or It’s Not

Posted on May 6, 2025 by Steve Ainslie

There have been accusations and news reports that the Trump administration’s cuts to the Federal Workforce and Funding Programs are both devastating and inconsequential. I smell bullshit. Something isn’t adding up here. Opponents say the departments, positions, grants and funding cuts will be catastrophic resulting in deaths, disease, starvation, poverty and more. Then they say,…

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Mass Deportation – Same As The Old Boss

Posted on May 3, 2025 by Steve Ainslie

Trump’s mass deportations and imprisonment of illegal immigrants (and any unfortunates who “mistakenly” get caught up in his overzealous deportation processes) feels unprecedented. Or, to be more precise,feel unprecedented in my lifetime. They may be new to me, but all it took was. little bit of reading for me to realize that mass deportations, chaotic…

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A Solution To Inner City Gun Violence?

Posted on April 29, 2025 by Steve Ainslie

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/people-i-mostly-admire/id1525936566?i=1000704954611 I am not going to thoroughly review the solution discussed in the podcast linked above. Instead, I encourage you to listen to it. I’ve written about gun violence in the US before. I’ve written about “lone wolf” shooters and about school shootings. But let’s face it – I don’t know shit about preventing shootings….

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  • It’s Either Significant…Or It’s Not
  • Mass Deportation – Same As The Old Boss
  • A Solution To Inner City Gun Violence?
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